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Friday, 14 February 2014

Valentine's Love Letters

A few weeks ago, I bought the stampy set from the Essence LE Love Letters. And because it's Valentine's day, I thought I'd finally try it out!

In the box you can find a rubber stamp, an image plate (with plastic foil on top, don't forget to remove this before stamping ;-) ) and a scraper.

This is the plate without the plastic foil on top.

This was my setup. I used a paper towel underneath, so the image plate would'n move while scraping and it's also easy to immediately wipe your plate, scraper and stamp after each use.I just followed the instructions that are on the back of the box. It did take me a few tries before I got the hang of it. I have another stamp that I used before and handling this one is a bit different.

But it's fairly easy: You put some nail polish on the desired design on the plate, scrape it with the scraper, take of the polish with the stamp with a rolling motion and then with that same rolling motion transfer the image to your nails and you're done!

I chose a butterfly and a cupid for my ring fingers, and love letters for my thumbs ;-).

I used Catrice 800 Heavy Metallilac as a base and used Essence Stamp me White! as the stamping polish.

The designs on my nails are not perfect, but I don't know whether that's because of the image plate or because of the stamp polish. Sometimes it took me a few tries to get the image correctly on the rubber stamp, sometimes the edges were smudgy. Also, this stamping polish takes longer to dry than I anticipated, because when I put a clear top coat on top, the designs became runny :-(.

The overall result is not that satisfiying, but maybe I should try it again later with different polishes and see if there is a difference in the result.